The State of Social: Rewild the Web
Morning.'s State of Social report maps today's fragmented social environment and presents 'rewilding' as a playbook for brands and creators. Drawing on digital ethnography, cultural audits, and a global shadow committee, the 75-slide deck identifies algorithmic echo chambers, private 'cosy' communities, and rage-driven attention tactics, then prescribes four rewilding principles with case studies (Jacquemus, Skims, Gentle Monster) and exercises for rebuilding niche cultural infrastructure.
- Slide 1: Morning. The State of Social: Rewild the Web
- Slide 2: Snapshot of emergent social memes and scenes
- Slide 3: Black holes of algorithmic echo chambers
- Slide 4: Welcome to the new state of social
- Slide 5: A New Era: four stages of social evolution
- Slide 6: Rhetorical call-to-action signaling urgency and a transition from diagnosing problems
- Slide 7: Rewild the Web: definition and rationale
- Slide 8: Methodology: cultural audit and ethnography
- Slide 9: Morning. Dialled in via our shadow committee
- Slide 10: Morning. Shadow committee: global contributors and cities
- Slide 11: Part 1: The State of Play Today
- Slide 12: The backend of internet culture is a feral field day
- Slide 13: Content pipelines: constructed vs unconstructed
- Slide 14: Digital natives drive culture online: to know them
- Slide 15: States that internet codes now define culture
- Slide 16: Who is the Digital Generation?
- Slide 17: The digi gen coexist across the same landscapes of sentiments and behaviours
- Slide 18: Maps core dynamics:worlds colliding, feed fatigue, promotional provocation, and breaking
- Slide 19: Brands risk becoming cringe when they chase trends
- Slide 20: Quotation from an anonymous Berlin cultural commentator arguing that relentless
- Slide 21: Trolling returns as an attention-seeking trend
- Slide 22: Artists use provocative commenting as promotion
- Slide 23: Politigrammers followed opponents to provoke argument
- Slide 24: If attention is the currency, how do we define outrage?
- Slide 25: Are we all edgelords now?
- Slide 26: Rage farming is algorithms plus anxiety
- Slide 27: Three approaches to engage attention-driven audiences
- Slide 28: The choice is clear: adapt, or go extinct
- Slide 29: It's time to rewild the web
- Slide 30: Summarizes four guiding principles:Random, Underground, Brutalist, Demystified:each describing a tactical
- Slide 31: What a rewilded web looks like
- Slide 32: The wild is not without chaos: let's hack it
- Slide 33: Positions cultural chaos as a generative force:drawing on mythic ideas
- Slide 34: A Case for Chaos
- Slide 35: Framework charting Chaos vs Order across four nodes (Random, Underground
- Slide 36: Practical playbook of modern social tactics: teasing, social‑first campaign
- Slide 37: Argues audiences now prefer low‑friction experimentation: 'post now, worry
- Slide 38: Social media as mass testing
- Slide 39: Brand case study showing how Marc Jacobs leverages multichannel storytelling
- Slide 40: Makes the case for Dada‑like absurdism as a creative strategy
- Slide 41: Gentle Monster: interconnected fantasies
- Slide 42: Niche inside: private spaces regrow community
- Slide 43: Offal: episodic WhatsApp audio zine
- Slide 44: Prompt Marketing: seed unpredictable conversations
- Slide 45: Less, Better: three myths of social
- Slide 46: Alexis Bittar: theatrical minisodes as comms
- Slide 47: Imagine brands communicating only once per year
- Slide 48: Metrics reimagined: conversation over reach
- Slide 49: Brands need to go on a dopamine fast
- Slide 50: Celebrities using comments to join culture
- Slide 51: Algorithms can cultivate niche appeal, not just scale
- Slide 52: The Cosy Web describes protected digital spaces:Discord, Reddit, private Instagrams
- Slide 53: Dark forests: retreating from the mainstream
- Slide 54: Information in the Cosy Web
- Slide 55: In response to algorithmic overload, individual curators and small media
- Slide 56: 'I scour the internet and come to you with my offerings.'
- Slide 57: New communities emphasize anti-gatekeeping and open knowledge-sharing:public tutorials, taste timelines
- Slide 58: Exercise: share a screenshot and explain
- Slide 59: Controlled Chaos: four principles of rewilding
- Slide 60: A section opener that calls to resurface niche, marginalized
- Slide 61: Plant The Seeds: From short-term tactics to cultural building
- Slide 62: Harvesting Your Goods: visual, logistics, comms, embellishments
- Slide 63: Jacquemus: In practice across four pillars
- Slide 64: Skims: In practice across four pillars
- Slide 65: Tell the Digisphere Who You Are, Or It Will Decide For You
- Slide 66: Rewild The Web: Index
- Slide 67: Morning.'s team credits include Rhianna Cohen, Lydia Pang, Dagny Tepper
- Slide 68: Intro slide signaling a multi-page roll of image attributions
- Slide 69: Image credits: page 1
- Slide 70: Image credits: page 2
- Slide 71: Credits: fashion collaborations, artists, and social handles
- Slide 72: Credits: eyewear labels, collectives, and photographers
- Slide 73: Credits: creators, collectives, and editorial sources
- Slide 74: Credits: memes, brand campaigns, and social posts
- Slide 75: Final credits: Skims and remaining image attributions
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